Buttered Polenta with Honey & Seeds

If you are not Italian, chances are that you don’t know what polenta is let alone what to do with it.

Ten years ago I discovered this ingredient at a cooking demonstration. Admittedly, I still find it a strange ingredient to use as a starch in a main meal but there is one way in which form polenta can get me excited – porridge!

How Westerners can feast every morning on sugary, dry cereal with milk is beyond me and it is something I will never be able to comprehend. It looks unappetisingly like sawdust, tastes like junk and you are hungry one hour later. Porridge is a much better and more nutritious alternative for breakfast.

Polenta is basically rustic cornmeal and has a vibrant yellow colour. It contains vitamin B1, also known as thiamin, folate, vitamin C, phosphorus, manganese and vitamin B5, also known as pantothenic acid. If that doesn’t convince you to try it, I don’t know what will.

The taste itself can be rather bland and boring but this is where you decadently add a lashing of butter to make it roll on your tongue, honey for sweetness, and seeds for interesting crunch and nuttiness. As you can see in the photo I like my porridge to be of a thicker consistency but there is nothing stopping you from making yours runnier. Lastly, don’t forget to buy some Merchants Gourmet Polenta. Have fun!

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Comments

Will definitely try that one.
I love porridge and every morning I make some type of “quick and cold served” porridge (that is easily soluble oatmeal with milk and sometimes honey), so that looks like a delicious change.
Now I only need to find out if the grocery store around the corner sells quick-cook polenta.

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